Access pricewatch.com. Pricewatch - The Internet's first price comparison site. Established 1995

pricewatch.com

59 ms

css

24 ms

detect1.js

106 ms

jquery.min.js

34 ms

plusone.js

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Pricewatch.com, 20% (20 requests) were made to I0.pricewatch.com and 16% (16 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (292 ms) belongs to the original domain Pricewatch.com.

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Pricewatch.com main page is 2.9 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

Original 22.1 kB
After minification 18.3 kB
After compression 5.9 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.9 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 16.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 82.3 kB

Original 2.7 MB
After minification 2.6 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Pricewatch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 99.8 kB

Original 169.9 kB
After minification 145.0 kB
After compression 70.2 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 99.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

Original 29.9 kB
After minification 24.2 kB
After compression 7.0 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Pricewatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pricewatch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.